4th Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation

July 27-31, 2003
Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation brings together a wide variety of disciplines for the exchange of technical information related to unstructured mesh generation. It is a biennial symposium held in conjuction with the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM), the main congress of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM). Previous Symposia have been held at North Western University (1997), The University of Colorado, Boulder (1999) and Dearborn, Michigan (2001). The 2003 symposium will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Scope of Symposium

Automatic mesh generation continues to be a vital technology in computational field simulations. As computing technology continues to advance and modeling requirements become more precise, automatic mesh generation techniques must rise to fulfill ever-increasing and diverse expectations. Providing a medium for this rapidly advancing technology is the Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation Symposium. It is a principal forum for unstructured meshing technology and its related disciplines. Topics of interest include:

Surface and volume meshing algorithms
Mesh improvements criteria and algorithms
Mesh adaptation algorithms
Anisotropic mesh generation and adaptation
Dealing with geometry issues including integration with CAD and high order elements
Mesh evolution in evolving geometry problems
Automatic geometric simplification techniques
Interesting applications of automated and adaptive analysis
Novel new domain discretization schemes
Parallel implementations and control of very large meshes
The Design-to-Analysis Process
- Data Translation
- Solid Modeling
- Geometry cleanup/repair
- Automation
- Best practices, data standards
- Design for analysis issues

In addition to the traditional focus on unstructured mesh generation, the scope of this year's symposium has been broadened to include Design-to-Analysis Issues. The efficiency of the process for transferring engineering design data to computational analysis model data plays a central role in the application of computational analysis to engineering design. The challenges involved in integrating these disciplines and their associated tools are often underestimated and have a profound effect on the utilization of computational analysis in the engineering design cycle. This mini-symposium will also explore some of the challenges presented by the design-to-analysis process as well as promising approaches to increasing the efficiency of this process.

Abstract Submission

Abstracts are required for the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. All abstracts must be submitted electronically through the USNCCM web site under the category "MeshTrends" by February 24, 2003. Examples and templates for abstract submission are also located on the USNCCM website.

Paper Submission

As part of this symposium, full papers will be solicited from the accepted presentations for inclusion in a peer-reviewed special journal edition. Publication solicitation will be based on the interest of the participating authors and the technical merit of the presentation.

Important Dates

Deadline for Preliminary Abstract Submission	February 24 2003
Final Selection of Abstracts	March 15 2003
Deadline for Print-ready Abstracts	May 31 2003
Deadline Early Registration	June 15 2003
Cut-Off Date four Double Tree & Hyatt Regency USNCCM Room Rates	June 26 2003
US National Congress on Computational Mechanics Technical Program	July 28-July 30 2003
Pre and Post-Conference Short Course	July 27 & 31 2003

Symposium Organizers

Steven J. Owen, Ph.D.
Computational Modeling Sciences Department
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Phone: (505) 284-6599
Email: sjowen@sandia.gov

Mark S. Shephard, Ph.D.
Director, Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy New York, U.S.A.
Phone: (518) 276-6795
Fax: (518) 276-4886
Email: shephard@scorec.rpi.edu

Shawn Burns
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Phone: (505) 844-6200
Email: spburns@sandia.gov

Additional Information

Additional information on the conference can be found at: http://www.esc.sandia.gov/usnccm.html

sjowen@sandia.gov